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Your Price: $25.75 Format: Hardcover Our Description What makes a great sermon -- or a bad one? This prominent speech expert supplied the answers in his guide for Catholics who preach, teach or give speeches Dull, shapeless and uninspiring sermons aren’t a uniquely modern phenomenon, but they do seem more common than ever. Why? Lack of proper training, mainly. Decades ago, addressing this problem, the Milwaukee Archdiocese hired Marquette University speech professor William Duffey to instruct priests and seminarians in every aspect of preaching, from composition to delivery. Such was Dr. Duffey’s success that, after 30 years of refining his lessons, he distilled them into this widely-used manual.
The “lost” art of preaching, regained
The principles of fine preaching “The needs of the faithful come above everything else. Do the people ignore the truth of a dogma? Then the preacher must instruct them. Do they question a truth? Then he must prove it. Is there a disparity between their belief and their conduct? Then he must insist upon the obligation which truth imposes upon them. The practice of morals must be stressed. Are passions in their hearts an obstacle to truth? He must oppose feeling with feeling, emotion with emotion.”
“Stand easily erect, arms dangling loosely at the sides, eyes closed; as you inhale, allow your arms to rise gently to chest level. Keep wrists and finger relaxed. Then open your eyes, step forward, and energize your wrist and hand as you make an appropriate gesture to illustrate the sentence: This man is here. Repeat the same exercise, and at the proper time point the index finger as you say: I am pointing at you. Suggest then by gestures that you are reaching for an object; you are warding it off; you are revealing it to listeners. Practice gesturing with a number of phrases locating or describing objects.”
BONUS: Practice exercises end each chapter APPENDIX: Techniques for improving posture, gesture, breath control, vocal tone and volume Detailed table of contents and extensive index
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